Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama has been revived at the Hampstead Theatre – where it originated – in a new production directed by Roxana Silbert. London’s Hampstead Theatre is continuing its 60th anniversary retrospective season of reviving plays which received their UK premiere there with ‘Night, Mother, Marsha Norman’s 1985 two-hander focusing on the lives of mother Thelma (Stockard Channing) and daughter Jessie (Rebecca Night).
A shocking revelation early on in the play reveals that this may be the last night the pair spend together – over the course of 80 minutes we gain an insight into their lives and conversations unfold covering all the things they really should have spoken about more honestly over the years.